The Jewish roots of Jesus

Passover, Yom Kippur, the Temple, the covenants and the feasts: Yeshua's life was Jewish from start to finish.

Yeshua's last supper was a Passover meal. Its cup, its bread and its lamb all point to him.

Once a year the high priest entered the Holy of Holies with blood. Hebrews describes Yeshua as the High Priest who entered once for all.

Yeshua taught in the Temple, cleansed it, and said it would fall. Forty years later it did.

Abraham, Sinai, David, and the new covenant of Jeremiah 31: one story of God binding himself to Israel.

Fifty days after Passover, Israel received the Torah. Fifty days after Yeshua's resurrection, his Jewish followers received the Spirit.

"The Word became flesh and lived among us" (John 1:14). The Greek verb means he pitched his tent, or tabernacled, among us.

The shofar calls Israel to wake up and return to God. Its ram's horn recalls the ram given in Isaac's place.

John 10:22-23: "It was the Feast of Hanukkah at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Yeshua was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch."

Jesus' Hebrew name is Yeshua, a form of Yehoshua (Joshua), "the LORD saves".

Born to a Jewish mother, circumcised on the eighth day, raised in Galilee, a teacher in synagogues, crucified as "King of the Jews".

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